Worldly Concern

Famous quotes containing the words worldly and/or concern:

“The weariest and most loathèd worldly life,
That age, ache, penury and imprisonment
Can lay on nature is a paradise,
To what we fear of death.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)